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Thoburnia is a genus of suckers found in the eastern United States. There are currently three recognized species in this genus.

Thoburnia
Torrent sucker Thoburnia rhothoeca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Catostomidae
Tribe:	Thoburniinae
Genus:	Thoburnia D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1917
Type species
Catostomus rhotothecus Thoburn, 1896

Species

• Thoburnia atripinnis (R. M. Bailey, 1959) (Blackfin sucker)
• Thoburnia hamiltoni Raney & Lachner, 1946 (Rustyside sucker)
• Thoburnia rhothoeca (Thoburn, 1896) (Torrent sucker)

References

• Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Thoburnia in FishBase. August 2011 version.

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